P.A.S.S. Does Not Equal National Work Skip Day

Cross-posted from my fictional blog: Relax.Relate.Release. To: Staff From: If You Don’t Know Who I Am By Now You Shouldn’t Be Working Here Subject: P.A.S.S. or Parentally Approved Skip School Day Staff: I’ve heard rumblings that some of you are planning to keep your children home from school on September 8th because you don’t want [...]

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Robot Teachers: Please Don’t Bring These To the U.S.

School pupils are to be taught by the world’s first robot teacher in one of the most radical uses so far of android technology. The device, created by scientists after 15 years of research, is being trialed at a primary school in Tokyo. Named Saya, she can speak different languages, carry out roll calls, set [...]

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Is California’s Mess Isolated or Just a Sign of What Could Happen Nationwide?

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did not get the election results he sought. Now he seems determined to show California voters the consequences. In a special election on May 19, voters rejected a batch of measures on increasing taxes, borrowing funds and reapportioning state money that were designed to close a multibillion-dollar budget gap. [...]

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Students Use Day of Silence to Remember Carl Walker Hoover

Hundreds of thousands of students are expected to participate in The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s 13th annual National Day of Silence on Friday to bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment. Some students are holding the day this year in memory of Carl Walker-Hoover, an 11-year-old from Springfield, Mass., who took his [...]

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